UAE summons Qatari ambassador over Muslim cleric's criticism


  • World
  • Tuesday, 04 Feb 2014

Professor Shaikh Youssef al-Qaradawi poses for photographs in London January 21, 2003.

DUBAI (Reuters) - The United Arab Emirates summoned the Qatari ambassador over what it called insults against the UAE made by an influential Sunni Muslim cleric in a broadcast from Doha, state news agency WAM reported on Sunday.

The incident reflects deepening splits between the two members of the Western-allied Gulf Cooperation Council in their approach to Islamists emboldened by the 2011 "Arab Spring" protests that toppled four autocratic heads of state.

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